Re: Currently WebP Still Can't Replace GIF

[Mathias Schindler]

Greetings,

On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 7:36 AM, <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently, WebP still can't replace GIF, because it doesn't support animated
> picture.

You might find Urvan's post interesting in which he explains how to
create animated WebP image files:
https://groups.google.com/a/webmproject.org/d/msg/webp-discuss/dq1F8osPZTs/sNN4-hzpsVgJ

Mathias

[Pascal Massimino]

Hi,

On Sun, Jun 9, 2013 at 10:36 PM, <ryan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Currently, WebP could replace JPG, because it offers lossy compression, and
Currently, WebP could replace PNG, because it offers lossless compression, but

Currently, WebP still can't replace GIF, because it doesn't support animated picture.

animation has been introduced in the format here: 

   https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/riff_container#animation

The libwebp distribution has a 'webpmux' utility to create animated files. 

And there's also a 'gif2webp' tool that converts GIF to WebP.

The patch to Chrome is on its way for next release: https://codereview.chromium.org/13980003/

skal